Gundam Is Getting Its Own Version of Warhammer 40K, With Fans Already Exclaiming "Take My Money"

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Bandai has announced a new miniatures game, featuring classic mech suits from the franchise transformed into 2-inch miniatures. Although the franchise is best known for its massive robots and complicated stories about the human cost of war, it also has a robust and growing line. In addition to its perennially popular «Gunpla» figures, which require hours of assembly and paint, Bandai is also producing a new set for release later this year. Now, expansion into the tabletop is expanding with a new game that already has fans extremely excited.

Bandai has announced ,a new miniatures tabletop game featuring classic mech suits from across the franchise. The game will feature 2-inch replicas of mechs battling on a hexagonal board. According to the official website, ""

From the brief teaser trailer, we know that will feature plastic minis that require painting and assembly. The game itself won't be an army-based game, but will rather feature small groups of 2-3 mechs and will use 10-sided dice for play. An army-based miniatures game doesn't really make sense for the franchise, although the smaller teams could mean that individual minis are more expensive as they'll likely be sold individually. No other gameplay details were provided on the official website for the game, but more will be revealed later.

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Promo material has also revealed some of the initial mechs that will appear in the game. Some of the minis revealed include the RX-78-2 Gundam and MSN-02 Zeong from the original series, XVX-016 Gundam Aerialfrom , and the OZ-00MS Tallgeese and XXXG-00W0 Wing Gundam Zero from the series.The game also specifically mentions that players can pull in mechs from multiple series to use in scenarios, meaning that players can pit mechs from across the franchise against each other to see which is superior.

As afan, sounds like an amazing